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The Witcher 3’s Ciri, Cosplayed To Perfection
2015 has beena goodyear for Witcher cosplay. Funny how the release of the best game in the series can do that. From the gear to the hair, Love-Squad’s Ciri is almost perfect. Photos by Alexander Turchanin.
By Luke Plunkett Published June 3, 2015 -
Culture
The Most Beautiful Race Car In The World (Of Tomorrow)
OK, let’s get personal. I like cars. I like F1. My favorite F1 cars of all time are basically any of the McLaren Hondas (with 91’s probably taking top spot) . The lines of the cars, that iconic Marlboro branding, ungh. Sadly, those cars are long gone, though as today’s Fine Art feature shows, they…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2015 -
The Khans Are Coming To Crusader Kings II
Crusader Kings II—one of the best video games ever made—has had a ton of great expansions and post-release content over the years. But none of it has been quite as exciting, at least to me, as this. Ever since CKII launched, one of the most defining features of the game has been the slow, inevitable…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 2, 2015 -
Culture
So You Wanna Be A Video Game Concept Artist?
Eliott Lilly, an artist who has worked on games like RAGE and Doom, was featured here a couple of years ago. He’s got a new project, though, that’s a little different to the stuff we normally showcase here on Fine Art. He’s written (and illustrated, duh) a book with the very snappy title The Big…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015 -
The Agony Of Playing The Same Game For Five Years
If you’ve never played Football Manager, everything you’re about to read will sound absolutely crazy. If you have, well, it’ll just make sense. physicalpixels has shared the tale of his 30 seasons in football management over (mostly) a single save game, played out over five actual years (2010-2015). It’s at once both a showcase of…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015 -
ReviewsOrder Of Battle: Pacific: The Kotaku Review
Panzer Corps is one of the best—and most underrated—strategy games available on the PC. Thing is, it’s a bit old-fashioned. Order of Battle: Pacific is what you get when a studio takes the same basic premise and makes it a little bit more 2015. OoB:P is a turn-based strategy game, played on a map made…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015 -
Windows 10 Will Be Out Next Month
Microsoft just announcedthat Windows 10 will be out late next month. July 29 is the big day (at least for PC and tablets), with the OS available both digitally and in stores. Remember: in a break from the company’s previous launches, existing users of Windows 7 (SP1) and 8.1 will be able to upgrade for…
By Luke Plunkett Published June 1, 2015 -
Culture
Come On In, The Water’s…Fine
Florian Aupetit is a 3D artist based in France. You can see more of Florian’s work at his personal site and ArtStation page To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2015 -
Busted PS4 Version Of Ultra Street Fighter IV Dumped From Evo 2015
Ultra Street Fighter IV is kinda janky on PlayStation 4. Which was making competitors nervous ahead of this year’s big EVO fighting game tournament, so instead of taking their chances with Sony’s promised fixes, organisers are taking a safer route with the game’s appearance, deciding instead to switch the platform it’s appearing on. As SRK…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2015 -
Another Gorgeous Animal Crossing 3DS
To this day, my favourite 3DS design is the Animal Crossing one. That place in my heart is being challenged today, however, by a new Animal Crossing 3DS design. This one’s a 3DS XL, and is being released to tie-in with the upcoming Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, a version of the game which lets…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2015 -
How Mad Max’s Explosive Visual Effects Were Made
One of the things that really grabs you about Mad Max: Fury Road is just how much of the action is made up of practical effects. Those are real cars exploding and rolling around, which always looks cooler than the floaty vehicles CGI puts on the screen. That doesn’t mean the movie was free of…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2015 -
New Fire Emblem Has Private Castles, Sexy Bathhouses
There was a new trailer for Fire Emblem if this morning, and it ran for nearly ten minutes. Nearly that entire time was spent showing players that they’ll now have their own castle, which they can expand, explore and hang out in between missions. You can also build a bathhouse. If you’ve played enough JRPGs,…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 31, 2015 -
Culture
Uh, Totoro, Are You OK?
Julian Futanto is an artist, animator and game developer currently working on the very cool Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!, a game about making (and selling) RPG weapons to RPG heroes. You can see more of Julian’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2015 -
A Very Different Kind Of Stormtrooper
ThreeA—a company renowned for making some of the best damn toys on the planet—has come out with a line of Star Wars figures, designed by famed comic, toy (and Metal Gear) artist Ashley Wood Taking ThreeA’s regular thing of making everything dirty and urban, these Stormtroopers look more like post-apocalyptic backpacking samurai. I’m not sold…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2015 -
The Witcher 3’s NPCs Get Weird When You’re Not Looking
When you’re there bumping into them and exchanging pleasantries, the NPCs of The Witcher 3 look busy! They’re digging, and chatting, and sitting, and doing all kinds of stuff. Walk away, though, and they drop the act. PC Gamer installed a mod that let them break the camera off Geralt’s back and fly around the…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 28, 2015 -
Culture
Nope, Still Not Enough Armor To Save You From Batman
Seth Nash is a character artist who has recently worked on games like Batman: Arkham Origins and Star Citizen. You can see more of Seth’s work at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand”…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2015 -
Truck Full Of Nintendo Games, Amiibo Stolen
A ton of Nintendo fans in the UK have been left without the games they pre-ordered after a truck full of copies of Splatoon (and related Splatoon Amiibo) was stolen. The theft of the truck, lifted on its way from Nintendo’s European warehouse to British chain GAME, means that anyone who pre-ordered Splatoon’s Special Edition…
By Luke Plunkett Published May 27, 2015
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